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Severe fan Tracks, and that is Victor Nuno VP ring side. Victor.
How you doing. I'm doing all some Jesse, fresh off of a trip
to Colorado Springs, which was pretty fun. I had the experience of being
around that frozen stuff that falls out of the sky some places that is in
California. It was nice. Yeah, we haven't actually seen that in a
little while out here, which is weird. But uh yeah, that's all
right, that's all right, you can keep it. But Victor, I
have two words for you this morning, Ryan McLeod, How Victor is freaking
Ryan McLeod helping you beat me in the semi finals of the Diesel four Sport
Hockey League. I had a huge lead on Victor just earlier this week,
and he has caught up and passed me and has lead me in the dust.
We got another week to go, Victor, but you're greatly frustrating me
in this league. Man, it ain't over, that's for sure. We
got a long way to go. But I know earlier in the week I
was like, oh my god, we got my butt picked here. But
yeah, things have turned around a bit. I think, first of all,
it's just good. It's good for the brand. There how many teams
in this league I forget, and then you and I are in the Semis.
That's pretty good. It's a cap league. It's really tough, and
we're there. And the other two players in the Semis are among FHL patrons
I believe who have come over to that league. Yeah, are Tony and
Foggy. I don't know is Foggy Foggy is in one of our leagues,
right, He's at least in the fhil dynasty. But yeah, yeah,
no, it's going well. It's good times over there. I am going
to give Victor a game attempt if Ryan McLeod will just settle the heck down
and let the big guys succeed here Victor. Trades have happened. Trade deadlines
have long passed in our leagues, but trade deadlines happened in the real NHL
this week. Did you now you were on travel, you couldn't be glued
to the coverage, you couldn't be following I'm sure the X in the real
time and watching Elliott Friedman drop free bombs constantly on what was happening, and
see weird Kevin Weeks videos where he rolls his eyes and stuff happens and then
suddenly guys are traded. But were you excited? Did you find this to
be an exciting trade deadline? I think it was really exciting. I think
for a while for some of the past ones, they maybe they have been
a little boring here and there, and certainly some big names moved before the
deadline. I think some people forget about that, and that's part of the
context too, So maybe there aren't as many big moves. But there were
some surprising moves and we'll talk about those. Some that no one really saw
coming. There were some ones that were predictable, but there were some big
ones that were like WHOA, where did that even come from? So that
was pretty fun. It's always got shock of WHOA. I didn't even think
that guy was on the market, I didn't think he was on the table,
and always moved. So yeah, there were some big ones. What
about you? I loved it. Yeah, NHL, it has long since
NFL trade deadline. If you follow multiple sports like me, NFL trade deadline's
a joke. There's nothing's happening there. The NBA tradeline deadline was a joke
this year, and traditionally they've been pretty good. And I would say NHL
is now neck and neck with MLB as far as the insanity that happens and
actual good players moving from team to team. So I really enjoyed it,
and I think we've got some good comments to make because there were some very
good pros who changed teams and now as dynasty managers, we got to pick
up the pieces. We got to figure out what we got left here,
and maybe some of us have kind of hit the lottery and others of us
are like, oh, shoot, value has disappeared from my dynasty. Star
here Victor. People want to talk about these things, and a place that
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check out on x Victor. It's time for us to take a break,
come back and break down some trades. I almost feel like we should have
Admiral Ryan here to break down the trades. Maybe he would have some different
insights on them. But we are going to talk about what the NHL gms
did in their trading. And just as an opening note here, there are
a lot of players who were moved at the deadline and some of you might
have said, boy, I don't know who that prospect was that was moved,
but that was, frankly a lot of prospects who were a bit more
on the obscure side, at least to me, a little bit more like
prospect lifers than the superstar prospects we like to talk about on the show.
Moved. But if you want to get the coverage on that is going to
be there's so many trades. Those are going to be covered over on our
sister podcast, asked Dabber Prospect Report, Victor and Peter Harlan will talk about
those instead. Victor and I are going to focus today on what happened at
the NHL level and how those will impact your dynasty teams. And I went
back to set these up. We can go back. I don't you go
back as far as you want, but we need to go back prior to
the deadline, and I started with the Christopher tannev CHRISTANNEV trade that the Dallas
Stars made. I like how the NHL teams now have a contract laundering operation
where one team takes the first shot at a player and retains part of the
salary, and then it goes to a second so the contract down basically shrinks
down to a fourth of the original size because nobody's got any dang cap room.
But the Calgary Flames moved him via the New Jersey Devils, and everybody
got a payoff in the end, and Chris Tannev went to the Dallas Stars.
That certainly, Chris Tannev has been getting a lot more publicity. I
think the cool kids like him as far as some of the advanced stuff that
he does. He hasn't always been a fantasy Darlene for us, but he
now moves to a legitimate Cup contender, and he was the bell of the
ball coming in among the defensemen or one of the top most prominent defensemen.
It's hard to say what this is going to impact. Maybe open up opportunity
with the Flames. We'll talk about another defenseman later, and maybe crowd up
the things in the Stars. What do you think, Victor, what do
you make of I feel like Chris Stanav's value drops down a little bit from
Dynasty purposes, but at least he'll play in some games that really matter for
the rest of the season. Yeah. I think there's a few things that
happened here. For one, Kristanev is on a much better team. And
we always talk about players on good teams that have the puck more, they
don't get as many blocks, they don't get as many of the peripherles,
and that's probably going to be true for Tanev, who had been a beast
with the piles, particularly the blocks. He's not much of a hitter,
but he blocks a ton of shots. One hundred and seventy one so far
this year. That's a lot. And the Flames were surprisingly a pretty decent
team, but there's no doubt that Dallas is the better team. They're a
Cup contender, I would say, clearly, and he's going to have a
little bit of a different role there, so that'll be interesting to see,
and I would imagine fewer perif roles. In fact, in a couple of
leagues that picked him up as a speculative ad knowing that he was getting moved
and because of the priffs and so far they've dried up in Dallas. Not
terribly surprising. In fact, I'm looking at right now, through three games
that he's played with the Stars, he has zero blocks, and in the
previous few games before that he was averaging around three, So that's a pretty
big drop off. But he also scored a goal in one of those games,
which he didn't do I believe at all, or maybe once. I
think he had one goal before that. Yeah, so I think he probably
will luck into a few more points, but I think the Priffs are going
to dry up. So if you were like me and picked up Tanev and
thinking maybe he could be a good Priffs guy, I'm not sure that's going
to be the case. You might need to move on from that. But
I do think he could look into some points, so for a depth option,
that could be pretty good. But I also think that there's another kind
of possibility here that's peripheral to that, and that is that that Tanev so
far he's played with high skin it or he's played a sort of bottom pairing
minutes. But I think that he could make a really good fit with Thomas
Harley, and Harley has had a bit of a breakout season so far this
year. But I think that he's someone who has a lot of skill.
I've been a big fan of his for a long time, and he doesn't
need but I think he could really benefit from a shutdown guy like Tanev and
I think that Harley could be the beneficiary of unlocking even more offense from him,
even more than what's happened this So far this season, he's got a
forty six point pace, which is almost double what he's ever done. Small
sample sizes, but he's looking really good and he's really coming into his own.
But I think anyone that's not Hi skinning on that team could really been
to fit from a stable partner like that. So that might not happen so
much rest of this season. And if you already have Harley in Dynasty,
then you're probably holding on to him. But maybe if you could acquire him
as a speculative ad because he is cold right now, and I do think
that Harley is going to turn it back around. What do you think about
that, Jesse? Yeah, I think that's fair. You would think that
the very first thing that a player could do fitting into a new team is
stand in front of the puck. That doesn't change with your defense. You
just stand in front of it. Let it hit you. That's a block
shot, So who the heck knows? Who the heck knows? Next,
we've got the Anthony Mantha trade. Anthony Manta, he and I have had
a rocky relationship over the last couple of years, so much hope, and
he came to the Capitals. Then he was miserable for a long time,
and then this year he got good again, probably because he was playing as
one of the few established forwards among a lot of guys who were moonlighting from
Hershey. But the Washington Capitals managed to acquire a second and a worth round
pick. Vegas's second round pick, of course, is likely to be pretty
late, and they retain some money to send Anthony Manta to the Vegas Golden
Knights, who always get a million players. You have to think that this
is going to hurt Anthony Manson's value because he really was filling the vacuum with
the Capitals, having himself a nice season, but hard to see him playing
a prominent role with the Golden Knights. What do you think, vicker Oh,
I absolutely think you're right about that. I don't think that Manta is
going to increase his time on ice, and it was already trending down for
the last several seasons. He peaked when he was traded that Detroit season to
Washington, and a little bit before that he was playing almost nineteen minutes and
then he's trended down. He's lost several minutes since then, playing just over
fourteen minutes, and I have to imagine he might even lose a lot more
than that playing in Vegas where they're pretty stacked in the top six, and
they even got more players that we'll talk about later in the show, and
then when everyone's healthy. It's going to be hard to imagine that. But
he really has resurrected his career, and I think Mantha is the kind of
guy who's much more suited for depth role. I think maybe early on we
thought he could be like one of the guys on a team, like be
a top line winger, but it's been pretty clear for a while that he's
not that. But he can still be a useful piece and he can have
some good depth scoring. The forty eight point pace he's on now is a
throwback to what he did in his first full season in Washington, playing a
little bit more. I think the other concern is the power play, right
is really he's not going to get on that top power play in Vegas,
it doesn't seem so maybe he'll get some second power play time, and he's
probably going to get just a handful of power play points moving forward. Caught
far cry from his early Detroit days where he was getting double digits. That
seems like a thing of the past. So it definitely seems like some depth
scoring, although they do score more. That's something that you have to factor
in. But I can't imagine his stock really goes up more. So I
think if you had, if someone was excited that he was going to a
better team contender, and you could flip him for something decent if the trade
Dell line hasn't passed in your league, I would do that. You probably
take what you could get for him. They think just sure, yeah.
And I think the other thing is he's an expiring contract, so for dynasty
purposes, he is going to probably lose some value now. He'll probably be
in a more right sized contract next year, turning thirty years old on another
NHL team in all likelihood, but so he could be a bit of a
bilo in the off season depending on where lance. So that is Anthony Mantha.
Next we're going to talk about another guy who's killing me in the Diesel
League. And then as vlad Tarasenko, he moved out to from the Ottawa
Senators to the Florida Panthers relatively reasonable price because there was some salary retained and
the Senator's got a fourth and a third round pick. But it depends on
what the Panthers do in the postseason. Kind of a reverse a pivot claud
Geru of an established guy, except Klaudjeru went to the Senators after the Panthers.
Anyway, flat Terrasenko back on relevant team. What do you think,
Victor, I whispered in his ear how much you dislike him? So that's
that's clearly the reason why he's doing so well. I like him too,
but not this week because he's killing me. I know, I know.
He was part of my many acquisitions earlier in the league in the year when
I had a bunch of extra cap and now I'm dealing with extra cap issues.
But he's not part of the problem. I'm happy with him obviously what
was doing right now. And obviously it's a great situation being playing in Florida.
They're obviously a really good team and so you love to see that.
Of course, there's always a little bit of concern about how much of the
prime deployment are you going to get? But so far he was lining up
with Barkoff and Reinhart. I'm not sure there's a better spot in the league
than playing with those two. Quite frankly, I know the Edmonton guys are
pretty great, but Barkoff there was a tweet about all the guys he's made
into kind of superstars and made a ton of money for them, and guys
that you don't even think about anymore, like the Donov, who even wants
him anymore. But playing alongside Barkov, he was a star, and Tarashenko
is no slouch on his own, but next to those two, that's pretty
exciting. You have to like that. Of course, it's only one game,
and I think he had two goals in that one game. You can't
necessarily expect that to continue forever. But you're pretty excited about what it looks
like so far. You had two goals and an assist in that game against
Calgary, So yeah, I think it's hard to imagine there's going to be
there's going to be a more exciting improvement so far that all those guys we've
talked about, and he might be one of the guys who improved his stock
the most. And you went from Ottawa that's a floundering team didn't quite work
out too. Florida might be one of the best teams in the league.
They sure look like they're going to be in it towards the end, and
they do have some depths. But what I like about Florida too, is
that they don't necessarily just give equal playing time to all their lines. They
definitely have some top players that they give a little bit more time on ice
two, and so you like to see that. So I'm pretty bullish on
him. Six points in four games. I don't think it'll continue quite that
much, and I don't think we're seeing ninety point Terrasenco that we saw two
years ago. I don't know that we'll see that rest of season pace,
but I think we could probably expect maybe a little uptick from the sixty point
pace. He was on fifty five to sixty ish points, so maybe seventy
seventy five ish rest of season is probably reasonable. What do you think about
that, Jesse? It's possible. It's just what kind of a hot run
he gets on and how quickly he clicks. But no of the Florida Panthers
are the top team in the NHL. Five points percentage by points. They
are no joke if you still think of them as that plucky underdog that upset
the Boston Bruins last year. They're above Boston in the standings now, so
moving on, we've got the Colorado Avalanche of Philadelphia Flyers. Colorado admits defeat
and sends Ryan Johanson with some more of that some more of that routine money
that they had before, over to the Philadelphia Flyers. They pay them a
twenty twenty five first round pick, which must make Johansson feel great, and
in return they get back Sean Walker and a lesser pick from a couple of
years. Hence, Sean Walker was having a nice rebound season. I remember,
at times we've dismissed him, or he's been dismissed. I've liked him,
but he's been dismissed. But he was having a nice season here.
And simultaneously, Brian Johansson, who is as I recall, when John Tortorella
took over coaching the Columbus Blue Jackets, his first move was to, you
know, embarrass Ryan Johanson and then trade him away. So I find it
ironic that now he's back with Tortorella. Maybe all is forgiven at this point,
but probably he is not there to I don't know if Flyers is a
freaking playoff team right now, so who knows what's going to happen there.
But what do you think of this trade Victor Sean Walker? Is that brief
glimpse of hope that we got with him gone at this point? Yeah?
I think so. I think that I was talking about this before the deadline,
and he was of all the trade candidates. I was firmly of the
camp of wherever he goes, it's probably gonna be worse good for him exciting
to play for the Avalanche. I think he might help the team overall.
I think there's some good depth there. I don't think he's bo byram Good.
I think he does some different things and I think he can help support
the team and maybe he'll get similar number of priffs because that is something he's
really good at and on his hits and blocks are generally really good shots.
Not so much, but he is a good peripherals guy and can eat up
minutes. But I don't think that the points are necessarily going to continue.
His high was a few years ago in LA thirty one point pace, which
is close to where he's at now, and maybe he'll get similar number of
points in Colorado. I'm not really sure about that, but you look at
his play driving numbers, and they've always been met to pore over his NHL
career, and then this season, all of a sudden, and he's driving
play really well and being really good defensively and offensively creating all these chances.
Did he suddenly just become really good or I just think a lot of those
Florida guys, sorry Philly, you guys are thriving in that system that Towards
is having them play, and I think he was one of them. So
I think you'll see some regression probably in his play driving numbers, but you'll
continue to see good priffs. I think the funny thing about Rai Jo I
don't think he's interesting to talk about, but it is interesting that he was
set to be the highest paid player ever to play in the AHL, and
suddenly when there was I guess they were trying to flip him to another team
for an asset, and Brier couldn't find a buyer. So all of a
sudden, Ryan Johanson was injured. Because if you're injured, you get your
full salary. But if you're not injured and you have to go to the
HL, then you get less. And obviously it would be it'd probably be
a big blow to the ego to have to report to the AHL after being
this NHL star. So anyways, that's always funny. Don't you think maybe
the injury was to his he go Victor Boom, I just blew your mind.
Now we got the big one, Victor, the big one after all
guys who have come up over the years, the Buffalo Sabers, the Colorado
Avalanche deal Bowen Byram to the Buffalo Sabers. No longer is he buried among
four big time defenseman in Colorado. Now he's only got to deal with the
own power in rastments Stalin And then meantime Colorado gets Casey Middlestat. Boy have
they needed a center for a while. In middle Stat, after years of
being the disappointment to us, has improved. He's done pretty well in the
last couple of years in Buffalo. So I gotta feel like this is a
bit of an improvement for both players. Byron is less buried and middle Stat
is given an opportunity with a better scoring team. And I think I saw
he might be playing on the second power plant. I'd have to go back
and look at that. But what do you think they're victor about these two
players fate? Yeah, I do agree that it probably helps both. Yeah,
Byron was never going to take a car, but he was also being
He was also behind Taves, and sometimes even Gerard was getting some opportunities instead
of him. I think that we saw some hilarious things in that first game
that he had, and the second game was maybe a little less exciting,
but he played a ton of time. He never this season, scrolling through
his game lug, he never played over twenty three minutes, and that was
rare. Twenty two to twenty three was rare. But he's playing twenty five
plus minutes in Buffalo, which makes sense because he's a really good player,
and there were some great clips. I don't know if you saw it,
but there were times where he was basically like trying to direct his Buffalo teammates
were to go on the power play and people were just not in the right
spots and he was passing to open space and people weren't filling it, and
I just imagine it must be so frustrating for him because he's I know where
you need to be and you're just not there. But he did score two
points in his debut and none in the second. But I do think that
people are saying, oh, but there's Dolleen and power. I don't necessarily
think that's the issue. I think Dollen is certainly someone he's not going to
surpass. But own power I don't think, and I never really thought,
was like this really great dynamic offensive defenseman. He's a really great two way
defenseman. But I think Byram is probably going to continue is going to get
more power play time than power moving forward, that's probably going to be plus
minus. It might shift back and forth a little bit, but I think
Biram is more likely to get second power play and maybe they'll even put him
on the top in it because he is a sort of dynamic skater and mover.
I think he'll there's more chance for him to get up on that top
power play in Buffalo than there was in Colorado, So I like that for
him. I think it probably does hurt power. So if you're an own
power manager, then you might want to take that into consideration because it's going
to be even harder for him to get five minutes. But yeah, overall,
I've been a Byrum stand for a really long time and I still think
he's a great player. I don't understand why he's been so bad and his
underlying metrics this year. One thing that we've always been able to say about
Byron is that even though he doesn't get as much time on ice on five,
he's an awesome play driver and he's you know, he was really good
in that Cup run. He was like an X factor that no team could
account for because they had to manage mccarr and all the other guys and then
Byron would just slip in and make them look silly at times. But this
year has been different. Those underlying metrics are not good, so I don't
know if he is he's had these post concussive injury issues. I don't know
if they're rearing their ugly head, but his play driving numbers this year have
been awful, so I don't know what's going on that. But hopefully he
can turn that around because the longer history has shown that he is really good
and maybe that's just a shift so far this year. Hopefully that turns around.
But in terms of Casey, Middlestat. I have been long skeptical of
middle Stat, but man, he really has turned things around lately, and
he has looked really good in a depth role in Buffalo, and I really
like this for him. I think that he has really shown the last couple
of seasons that he's a sixty plus point player with really not the most amazing
deployment or linemates. He's gotten some skinner and tuck at times, but he's
also getting you know, a lot of Jordan Greenway and Peterka and some other
guys, a little Zach Benson, which Zach Benson is a great player,
but he's also really young, hasn't I don't know about that, but I
think that the Avs when they won the Cup, they had Nasen Kadri,
who was an awesome two see, and then they tried out Raijo and Comfort
and there were some other pieces in their kerfoot. I think that middle Stat
is probably the best of those other guys. I don't think he's Caudre,
but I think he's much better than all the other TWOC options that they've had,
and I think that he could really thrive in that role like Caudrey did.
Having career seasons, so I think that we could see maybe not so
much this season or maybe rest of season with middle stat But I do think
this is a really really good improvement for him, and I think that this
was a this was another suit or shrewd move by the bia josakk and dealing
from a position of strength to a position of need. They had some really
great defensemen and Byron was back in the being pushed back a little bit,
and what they really needed in Crave was that twoc And I think it's also
important that he's an RFA this summer, so they have his rights and they
can negotiate with him and hopefully, if things go well, they can lock
him up for a long term deal. That's a massive win for the ABS
as well. Think I wonder how many trade offers over the years where Jill
Sakik got a call and another GM said, hey, would you be interested
in trading Bowen Byron and Saki just hung up the phone. And but this
was finally the deal he had to take, and yeah, he's not screwing
around, speaking of teams not screwing around. So imagine for a moment that
you're the Edmonton Oilers. You have absolutely no money and you need a center.
What are you going to do? Turns out, then, in the
year of our Lord twenty twenty four, you trade for a thirty four year
old Adam Henrik by by giving up a first round pick, a fifth round
pick, another fourth round pick. I guess they got a seventh back,
and you get the Tampa Bay Lightning, who are always trying to finagle somebody
else to take some money to actually launder the deal and take three million of
the retention so that you can filter it all the way down to an incredibly
cheap contract for both him and Sam Carrick, who is another player they needed
to get in to field the roster, another old guy. Do you know
that Connor McDavid is actually the youngest player among the Ford group except for Ryan
McLeod. Well, Ryan McLeod is he good? Is he doing well lately?
On Ryan McLoud? No, never heard of him, Never heard of
the guy. But anyway, so the Ebdon olders did that. It was
that tough in the center market right now. Adam Henrik, who we've considered
too boring to cover on team intros even for the Anaheim Ducks, but nonetheless
here we are. He has got a great opportunity because we know that the
Oilers need depth centerman and he's skating with Evander kin. That's pretty nice.
Evander Kent, He's a score. He does good things. Henrik has been
getting no power play time, a little bit less average time on ice,
but he's obviously with a better team at this point. What do you think
is Adam Henrik going to vault himself into fantasy relevance here, Victor And what
do you make of this? No? I don't think so, but he
does go to a much better team, and I think one of the things
that was fun about Henrique was the off night schedule of the Ducks and the
fact that he was basically playing top line or at least top six minutes.
That is not going to happen in Edmonton. I guess there's always the possibility
that they put him up with either dry Side or or McDavid, but that
seems very unlikely. They brought him in to be that three seed, to
be that bottom six center, that depth, hard to play against kind of
guy, so I can only imagine that's going to really tank his minutes,
since so far it has with Edmonton, he was playing closer to twenty minutes
on average in in Anaheim and his two games in Edmonton, he's lost about
six minutes of time on I side, That's what I would have expected,
and the if you're wondering, it's going to be hard to have that many
periffs because of the time. But he's had as a hit in each game,
a shot in each game. That's about it. What I find interesting
is I thought they would have him take more face offs, but he was
taking a ton of face offs. Since so far in Edmonton he's taken zero
in two games. That's strange to me. I thought he would do more
of that, but no, I think this is bad from Henrique. From
a fantasy perspective, clearly it's not going to help him, and I think
from a team perspective, it remains to be seen. Maybe maybe this could
jive and well and maybe it helps Skinner and the goalies in the team,
but I'm skeptical about that too, just because even though he's kind of has
this reputation of being like a good player and like hard to play against or
whatever, generally, is underlying metrics have been not great in terms of his
in terms of his expected goals against, INCURSI against, but he is closer
to average and maybe that maybe some of that was just Duck related because they've
had they've struggled, But I think that overall it's not great. Krik is
an interesting one just from the perspective of he's thirty two, but he's been
a prospect, he's been prospect eligible in certain leagues for a whiles at two
hundred and twenty six games now, but he's had sprinkled in games just over
the last several years. And anyways, he's someone who I've always thought of
as a role player, but he gets a ton of priffs. His hits
are huge. He's like over two hits per game and not that many blocks.
The question is that really going to continue doing all of that in ten
eleven minutes of time on ice. So he has actually increased his time on
ice this season and so that's interesting, but that has been translated so far
to Edmonton. He's playing a lot less, which I would have expected.
But yeah, I think that's the question is can that continue? Can he
continue to hit as much? So far he has three hits in two games
where he was getting two three four hits a night in Anaheim so probably not
much there for Kerrick. But in really deep leagues. There's actually one league
where I'm considering acquiring him. It's that deep. Probably don't expect what he
was doing in Anaheim to continue for Sam Carrick. The New York Rangers exhibit
beat of how tough things are on the streets when it comes to centerman.
Acquire Alex Windberg from the Seattle crack and send a second and a fourth back
and get them to retain some salary. Now I get it from a real
life NHL perspective, I'm not I guess I can't diss Alex Windberg from a
fantasy perspective. Nobody hates shooting the puck more than Alex Wantberg. He averages
what like one in a quarter per game. He just actively hurts your shots
on goal if you're playing him as a centerman, and he'll be going definitely
to more of a depth role, as we covered in the preseason this year.
Apparently he was a TikTok sensation last summer, as all the ladies fell
in love with Alex went Berg to the point where he and his wife had
to go on the internet and please ask people to just calm it down.
Now his picture will be placed up in Times Square, and there's no doubt
that it's coming back. But Victor, what do you make of Alex Winberg
the New York Ranger. Yeah, he's not interesting to me. I think
he was maybe mildly interesting in Seattle, just because they deploy their lines so
horizontally and give a lot of time on ice to people who, you know,
maybe they shouldn't. Maybe you know, we all want them to give
more time to the Jared McCanns of the world, but they don't. So
he was playing twenty eighteen twenty twenty one minutes in Seattle, which he probably
shouldn't have, and he's going to be more of so far. In his
first game with the Rangers, he played fifteen minutes, which is about what
you would expect, and also zero shots, but he does get the occasional
assist and New York is obviously a good team. I don't really think that's
going to continue or help him too much, just because he's going to be
pushed on the lineup so much. And as you mentioned, the shots,
he has eighty two shots in sixty games. That's just ridiculous. So yeah,
that's the frustrating thing. He just does not shoot and he's playing.
He played that game with Cocko and Will Cooley. Yeah, he's not going
to be playing with the Criders, Panerens tur Checks, even Lafrenier. So
not much to be excited about there. He's not going to sniff the power
play. Yeah. Not excited about Alex Wendberg. I'm even mad that we're
they spent as much time as we did already. Yeah, I probably should
have prioritized some other ones here. Let's talk about Noah Hannifin, because he
also was one of the big names at the deadline. Hannafin, he has
been an obscure and his profile was raised, maybe partas because he's Calgary,
but he's definitely gotten pretty strong over the years since being dealt for Dougie Hamilton
once upon a time, and this time it was the Philadelphia Flyers plain middleman
to get him to the Vegas gold the Knights who just trade for everybody now
somehow victor the Calgary Flames. They traded away two of their big players here
at the deadline, and somehow they still have twenty of their twenty three active
roster slots with guys already signed contracts for next year. The Jacob Pelletier nick
it's insane and Dylan Dubay is not. Yeah, it's absolutely insane. There
actually is only one team in the NHL with more. I don't get what's
going on in Calgary, but anyway, Noah Hannafin moves out. Opportunities perhaps
open in Calgary for other guys, and presumably Hannafin is going to fall off
in Vegas where he's not going to have these uncontested power play minutes. Oh
yeah, I don't really. I don't know why they would let him or
make him run the power play. I mean, they have been issues with
Shaye theatre or staying healthy, but he's healthy now and as long as he
and Petrangelo are healthy, I don't see no hand offin getting any power play
time on ice. You know, he was having a really nice season,
almost fifty point pace, so that was really good, but some of that
was certainly power play related. He had eight power play points and that's close
to his high. His high was thirteen. He's done eleven. All other
seasons he's had fewer than ten power play points, so it hasn't been too
heavy on the power play point department, But overall, he's just I think
this is one of those things that just helps the team way more than it's
going to help no Hannifin's fantasy value playing with Alice Petrangelo, what he is,
what he's been doing, that's going to be good. It'd be even
cooler if he played with Shaye Theato or maybe in terms of his potential to
score points. But either either way, I think he's going to be a
top four there for a strong team, and they do score a lot,
he might actually continue at a similar pace. I think May fifty is maybe
a bit rich, but I think certainly in that forty to fifty range is
where I would expect him rest of the season. So you like that for
Noah Hanafinn. In terms of the time, he probably goes down just a
little bit because he was playing closer to twenty three twenty four minutes and he's
probably gonna be between the twenty twenty two range, So you might decrease the
priffs just a little bit. But overall, I think this is it's a
horizontal move because he loses some time and opportunity, but he's playing for a
much better team that scores more. It's probably pretty decent, and I think
if you had Hannafin, you're probably not too upset with that, especially as
everyone left Calgary and you wonder how they're ever gonna score again. But I
think that it's probably not too bad, right, not too bad, not
too bad. Indeed, Victor, we're gonna take a break, come back.
We've got more guys to discuss selfish right steps breaking down, Yet the
fuck don't go. He's still gonna be there. And you got jumps and
taking coast to coast talking still shot bad Dons. That's a good breakaway.
Get the bound boys. Okay, we have covered team with relevant players.
Who do you think about a lot? I'm gonna zoom through a couple of
these here, Victor, and perhaps mentioned a couple of them in a row.
You stop me, or you comment after the fact whether any of these
trip your trigger, and whether there are any guys to comment on. Joel
Edmondson goes to the Leafs from the Washington Capitals. I don't see a whole
lot there. The Red Wings and Sharks. Flip Radham Simmock, who goes
to the Red Wings for Clym Costin Well, Clym Coston yet again moving around
somehow, the Sharks a choir salary, and for not only this year.
In that deal, the Sabers send Eric Johnson over to the Flyers, and
the Predators swap Wade Allison for Dennis Gourian Up. Any of that stuff interest
you, Victor, I just have to say Shimmick's name correctly. But other
than that, does he deserve that, Victor? Yeah, everybody deserved.
People deserve to have their name said. Forget I said that. We'll draw
that from the record, your honor. He was good a couple of years
ago, Rydeem Shimmick when the Sharks were good. He was a pretty tough
guy to play against. He had a devastating knee injury, and it's amazing
he's playing again. I actually watched him at a recent Barracuda game and he
does not look like he moves very well, and that was never his strong
suit. But that's a little worrisome. But he's a depth guy. He's
your physical, tough to play against, hard nosed, like old school kind
of defenseman. I don't really understand why Detroit wants that. That's just strange.
They keep it seems like they keep loading up and blocking Simo and Edvanson.
That just seems like that what Stevie Eiserman's doing, and it it really
pisses me off. Kostin, Yeah, he's a banger guy. I think
that Sharks want these low controlled assets. Maybe they'll flip him at the next
deadline. I don't know. That was a strange one to me too.
Wasn't really quite sure about that. Garry onov Man. I really was interested
in him. When Dallas went on that Cup run, he seemed like he
had this untapped offensive potential. But I think the answer is no, I
don't think he does. I think he maybe it was just a situation.
Dallas was so good and he could, you know, flex that to his
benefit. But he has really struggled to do anything offensively since then went to
Montreal, went to Nashville, went to Philly, and he really hasn't had
anything more than a forty five point pace. So I don't think. I
don't think he's anything. I probably shouldn't even have mentioned him. But let's
move on Jesse, all right, Anthony Douclaire, the Sharks move out yet
another player. This one is exactly what we're talking about, trying to flip
for a little bit of value. They get Tampa's third round pick this year
for moving to Claire obviously had an opportunity to be featured a little bit in
San Jose. He's got a history of succeeding and placed in those positions in
Tampa once again gets themselves a little offensive producer. Looks like that Deuclaire is
going to get to play with stamp Coos and Sorelli right now. That's where
he's listed in the Lions. That's pretty good. What do you think of
this move? Victor the Duke Anthony du Claire, Yeah, he was.
It was funny because I think there was some frustration with his play in San
Jose and there was some scratches. They wanted him to play a more complete
game. I don't know, there was some weird things going on with them,
were there, But I think that, Yeah, he did show a
couple of years ago in Florida that he had some potential and he had sixty
plus point paces in his couple of seasons there in Florida except for the last
one where he was injured. So I wonder if that was part of Tampa's
So they probably saw a lot of him when he was down there in Florida
nearby, and so potentially that was part of it. But yeah, he's
a guy that, you know, in terms of the low cap, a
reasonable cap. Good move to acquire someone who has shown some depth scoring,
and they certainly could use that. They have really thinned out a lot of
a lot of their forward group, so he's someone who I would be.
I think that's a pretty exciting move in terms of what you know, what
you could get for players at the deadline who moved to a better position.
I think Doclaire is probably one of the more exciting ones, certainly playing with
stamcos he seemed like he's taken a step back this year. He's slowed down
a little bit, but he's still an excellent scorer. And Sorelli is a
good play driver, and we know that Tampa moves guys around. Douclayer might
get some time with Koutra or point or whatever. So I think this is
a really good move because Douclaire clearly seems like he's someone who could fit nicely
into that top six. So I think you're pretty excited about that. Yeah,
I think that's fair enough. Anythingy to do Claire, I think probably
produces more. This is the big one, Victor. And it's not like
I put these in order of importance necessarily. I put them in the order
that they showed up on cap Friendly mostly here, although I've moved a couple
out of order to get them together. Carolina, though, acquires Jake Ginsel
from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jake Gensel and Ty Smith with a little bit of
salary routine by the Pens in return for Michael bunting some prospects. Again,
Cruz Lucius, I would like to listen to the other listen to Daber prospects
report, and you get some of that stuff and as good, possibly as
good as twenty twenty four first at least a twenty to twenty four early second
or mid second from Philly and a fifth. So there are some or Pittsburgh
is restocking the fridge. There's no doubt about it. In Gensel, it
was time to move in. This was Carolina's big move at the deadline.
Is it gonna help Jake? Here's what I will say, And hat tip
to Dimitri Philipovich. I was listening to his show the other day where he
mentioned Carolina rarely pushes in their chips. They sit back a lot and try
to be very patient. They pushed in some chips this time, and Carolina
has got a nice prospect system. They pushed in some guys. The broadcast
I was watching yesterday, Kynes pointed out that this year's Knes our third in
recorded history. That's back to the mid two thousands in corsi four percentage.
We all know that's Carolina's m o. They out shoot, attempt you.
That's what they're trying to do is just keep throwing pucks at you at a
higher proportion. Only last year's Kanes, which are the record holders, and
the President's Trophy Avalanche from a couple of years ago have had a higher coursy
four percentage for a year. So why not acquire Jake Cansel who is number
seven among eight hundred and seven players in the NHL this year in on ice
corsi four per sixty. When he is on the ice, Pittsburgh is chucking
the puck at the net. You have to think that will help in terms
of him fitting into this offense. It's always a question you're going to come
in and March, are you going to be able to fit in with a
group of players and who knows, but certainly Jake Gnsel is accustomed to the
idea of we're going to take shots in volume, in attempt shots in volume,
so I have to think there's at least a change that he's going to
be able to fit in. Those Carolina guys are pretty savvy, and for
them to make this move tells me that they think it is going to click.
What do you think Victor Genssel's individual value could decline a little bit,
but I think he's going to be successful with Carolina in terms of what they
can do and probably maintaining similar value for the rest of the year. Yeah.
I think it depends on how you define success, which you just did
both for the team and for the player. I think if you're talking about
the team, I could not agree more this is an awesome move. He's
a finisher and that's what they've always lacked, and if you look at what
do they need and what do they get, they seem like they refuse to
get the thing that they needed always every deadline, which you could also argue
was maybe goaltending, but finishing when you have such a strong coursey is super
important, and they've been the case example the Carolina Hurricanes of what happens when
you have great play driving and not great finishing, and that's been frustrating.
I'm sure from their perspective they haven't got the playoffs ls they feel like they
probably deserve. But I think there's also we could have a bigger discussion about
is that strategy worth it or is it better to have high quality, dangerous
chances even if you only get four to six of them a game. Anyways,
that is what they do, and I think Denzol is a good fit.
How will he do playing against next to a not for sure Hall of
famer like Sidney Crosby, I don't know will he work as well? Aho
is an excellent player, but he's no Crosby, even at this stage of
his career, He's no Crosby. I think that's going to be really interesting
to see. I agree that the time on ice and the opportunity is probably
going to be similar, if not a little bit worse. He's clearly a
top power play guy, but we know how Carolina deploys their lines, so
he probably will get less. Hopefully he's just stable to Aho and plays as
much as he does, and if that's the case, it'll be fine.
He won't decline too much. But yeah, you have to really like this
in terms of the opportunity of the Penguin seem like they're just going nowhere,
so that's frustrating. But overall, I think, yes, this is great
for the team and it'll probably be similar and I do think we're not going
to talk so much about the move, but people were panning this move.
I think this is a really smart move actually for the Penguins, because there's
not a whole lot that they could have gotten. And you could look at
these prospects and we'll talk about them on the DPR show and you can say
that's not anything super exciting, but you have to remember the Penguins prospect system
sucks. It's terrible. So they got three decent, two pretty good prospects
that are clearly already near the top of their prospect board and they were middle
to bottom of the Carolina Hurricane. So this is why you draft great and
have great prospect depth, because even if you don't use them, you can
flex them for really good players. And this is a point that I always
talk to people about in their dynasty leagues, like having good quality prospects doesn't
always mean you're going to use them on your team. You might use them
as asset management, and that's what Carolina did, and I think it's brilliant.
I'm not sure about Bunting. I think maybe this helps him, but
the pender just they struggle. They're struggling, and I'm not sure that we've
seen Bunting only really be great when he's next to stars and playing at the
top of the lineup. Maybe he plays with Crosby or Walkins. Seems like
a shadow of himself now, so I'm not sure he counts. But it's
maybe a little bit better for Bunting. Hard to say, but definitely I
agree with what you said about Gensel. I think it's probably pretty similar to
lateral move for him, which should be fine. And I actually went after
him in one league and acquired him, and so I'm pretty pretty excited for
this move. Although he's still hurt, I think he should be back in
the next week or so, so maybe just miss another game or two of
his Carolina tenure and hopefully he'll be in soon, right in time for playoff
matchups, which is pretty exciting. Yeah, and Bunting's contract lined up perfectly
with Gensel's after the retention, so that it was a net zero transaction.
But Bunyan has two more years of contract, so apparently mister Dubas must like
him. In other Carolina news, if Guinea cuzs nets Off moves there for
a twenty twenty five third round pick, now, I'm going to try not
to talk out of school, but let me just say I obviously have very
warm feelings toward of Guinea cuzs nets Off. He was the best player.
You'll never get me to say differently. He was the best player during the
Caps Stanley Cup victory. On the other hand, he's been a troubled individual.
He Michael Kempney said on I think it was Czech television. I'm not
sure if Kempany is Checker Slovak, but that it was an open secret that
he was I on cocaine for the entire playoff run when the Caps won.
He was then busted for it. He was banned from international play for four
years, suspended from the NHL for a while, and that was five years
ago, and then now he entered the player Assistance program. I got to
think that some of his personal demons have taken a toll on him over the
years, and it's so good to see him smile again and watching him play
in the game yesterday the Canes played, he was out there smiling. He
was out there for a goal. He didn't score point on it, but
he was out there for a goal from kat Kinyemi and just looking good.
He was even smiling when he was down in Hershey. Maybe being in Raleigh,
North Carolina is not a bad place for him to be as opposed to
one of the big cities of the NHL. But I just hope that this
is an opportunity for Kuznetsof to maybe turn around some things that have him been
going right in his life, and maybe he recovers some of the success that
he had in his prime. But what he is if Guinny kuznts that I
framed it like that, Victor, you think Kuzi is going to be able
to come back and be NHL relevant again. Yeah, I mean, I
think it really all depends on how interested he is. He's the clearest example
I can ever think of someone who when he wants to and tries, is
amazing, and when he doesn't, he's just awful, just terrible. Like
you said, if he's happy if he's into it. Obviously, whatever has
been happening in Washington has not been exciting for him, or I don't know
what it is. Maybe there's some personal demons, as you said, but
he hasn't seemed engaged always and so that's been a struggle. And hopefully going
to this good, competitive, exciting team really lights a fire on him,
because you're right, people will always say, oh Ovi won them the Cup,
but it was because nets Off. He was amazing in that run when
they and it's not like Gobe wasn't good that year or the other years,
but the big difference was kuznets Off. And of course Breton hope he playing
out of his mind. But yeah, but then you see him when he's
disinterested or lackadaisical, it's frustrating. So I don't think that he's going to
be super exciting because he's going to get little minutes. But having a player
of that caliber on your third line is ridiculous for the team. So it's
really going to help them, and maybe maybe he thrives and kicks it in
the gear and does really well. Anything's possible, right, And I do
hope that her things out for himself and is healthier and happier. Obviously we
wish that and this could be a really good thing for him, but yeah,
I'm not sure I would count on that in terms of fantasy production,
and certainly in a cap league, this is like a non starter, right,
It's just like absolutely, yeah, no way. There's a reason that
the Caps were willing to eat that much because it is that bottomed out right
now with him, But they are having to eat quite a bit of money.
Yeah, and don't be fooled when you look at cap friendly and see
the three point nine million that the that the Hurricanes are paying him, because
he still has the seven point eight as his total contracts. Yeah, that's
a lot for someone that's a third liner and might get thirty forty maybe fifty
point paced rest the season. But that's probably what you're looking at, so
don't get full by that. Yep. Lorida Panthers acquire Buffalo's captain Kyle lock
Poso. Once again, they're stocking up for their run, get a veteran
with some leadership experience. The Sabers pretty much get very little back. They
get maybe a fifth rounder of Florida wins the Cup. Otherwise the seventh rounder.
Basically they're getting off that contract and moving on. Maybe they're doing a
favor for the old captain. He's old, he was only skating thirteen thirty
seven in Buffalo. Hard to think it can even be worse than that in
Florida. But probably his days fantasy relevance are well behind him at this point.
What do you think, Victor? Yeah, I'm not super excited about
op Poso either. I can't imagine he's gonna do much, but he did
have some flat He has had some flashes here and there, but he is
definitely someone who struggles to get around the ice now. But if he can
have someone transport the puck, if on the offensive zone, he can still
do his power forward thing being there the net and clean up some garbage goals,
So that's good for him. But yeah, I don't Maybe as a
streamer on a really good Florida team, he's obviously a little bit more exciting,
but yeah, probably not unless it's the deepest of leagues. Are you
going after Kyle Locoso? The New Jersey Devils flip Tyler to Folly to the
Jets for a future third and a second, and they retain some salary the
devil had to pivot. They acquired this guy as one of those guys you
acquire to make your run, and instead, with the season that they've had,
they flipped him and tried to get a little bit more asset, a
little bit more preparation for the future. Frankly, my interest in this to
fully we'll have some offensive impact. But Frankly, my interest is that he's
now played for four of seven Canadian teams and I just wanted to punch every
card. If he punches six, he gets the seventh team free. Is
what I understand. Victor. What do you think is to fully moving from
Jersey to Winnipeg increasing his fantasy value? I don't know, but I agree
with you this is fine. I think he's cloud. I don't know what
do you call it? The full maple leaf? I'm not sure the full
maple Oh, I love it. He has to do Toronto last, Yeah,
of course, of course. Yeah. Make them wait the longest.
That would be fun. Yeah. No, I think that this is I
think this is probably good for him. It's probably bad for Nick Eelers.
For Nick Eelers, one of the best players that gets the worst deployment.
I remember when we talked with Greg Wishinski on the team preview and he was
talking about how they really needed to bring someone in that had that playoff experience
and that was, you know, delivered in the prime moment moments. And
I guess we won't really learn that about him in Winnipeg, but we have
seen him do that in LA We've seen him do that. In Montreal,
We've seen him and he has done that. So I think he will be
good for the Jets, and he won't be the focal point because they have
Connor and Shifely, but I think that it will be good for the team
and probably for Tofoli. It's probably you know, the lateral move. Jersey
had some decent depth too, and so they didn't necessarily need him to be
the guy, but a nice top six complimentary piece, which I certainly think
he can be, and he can score a decent number of goals rest of
the season, so I like that for him. I think that it probably
is a really good move. And he's a UFA this summer, so we'll
see where he goes after that. But I do I'm pretty excited about this.
I think the Jets are a really strong team and yeah, it's pretty
fun. And I hope like you that in the off season that he goes
to Let's see, who hasn't he played for. I guess there's Vancouver.
There's they can't go to Toronto because he has to go there last, so
he needs to go to Vancouver and then Ottawa and then did he play for
Vancouver. He's definitely not played for Tontawa and Toronto. And it's I think
the Oilers. I think one, Yeah, those are the other three.
Take your time, work your way through that. Evonton Pride have room for
you. Right now. We know that Toronto always signs the thirty nine year
old who's willing to take a minimum contract at their end of their career,
although I don't think Tolly's not from Toronto right anyway, Victor, Now we're
going to talk about the Nashville I'm getting into the Nashville Predators lately. I'm
doing work with your Dabber Prospects. I should have said I'm I'm with dabber
Prospects dot Com. Now I'm going to be writing some prospect observations and notes
on the Nashville Predators prospects and going to be enjoying that but Barry GM Barry
Trotz is starting to fascinate me. The Nashville Predators, of course, been
in a hot run, so they actually bought a couple of veterans here at
the deadline. They were willing to trade picks. But one of the things
I like Barry Trotz now is that Barry has the same theory about draft picks
as I do in our FHL dynasties. He doesn't care about the late round
picks. The Predators now have nine picks in the first four rounds, zero
picks in the last three rounds for this year. He just kept flipping away.
He traded for him, he traded him away. He ended up with
Anthony Bovillier and Jason Zucker, among others, and they moved a couple of
other young guys out. I don't even know what's going on here. Bovillier's
once again, he's taking on four million dollar salary. Bovillier had a middle
of the year stretch where he was with Chicago and a scored nothing coming off
a risk injury, and somehow we're going to take him for the rest of
the year at Nashville. That's part of making it run with a veteran Barry
used to coach him in the Islanders in so, I don't know what's going
on there, Victor, what are the Predators doing? And what do you
think of these acquisitions? I feel like I have to clear up first that
Tyler to Folly absolutely is from a suburb of Toronto. Oh my gosh,
yep, thirty nine year old to Foley. We know where it'll be there,
you go, you called it. We'll reference back to this. And
yeah, congratulations on officially joining the Diver Prospects team. That's going to be
fun. And yeah, I also love what Nashville is doing. They there
was a lot of publicity about the trip that they were doing out west and
they weren't playing well and they had this trip, they had this event planned
going to a show in Vegas. I think it was Curtsilay or something I
can't remember, and then they said, Nope, you guys aren't going.
You're playing like crap, and they proceeded to destroy that West coast trip or
after getting a talking to or whatever you want to call it, and then
they basically just put themselves in the playoff position. And Trotz was like,
like, I guess we got to many push our trips in now. But
I like the way he did it. He didn't make these massive splashes.
He made some calculated bets on guys that generally have some upside and have some
term but are cost controlled for the most part, and so they're not like
these massive bad sucker is Sucker and Baville or both UFAs. But they added
some other depth that has some that can be here a little bit longer than
that, So that's interesting. I mentioned on a previous podcast how I wasn't
a super big fan of Zucker, but maybe he can turn things around here.
I do think that Nashville is a good landing spot for these guys,
but mainly more as depth players. I've never been a huge fan of Bavillier,
but I don't know that he's a twenty five point pace player, which
is what he's been on this year. Maybe he can get back to that
forty to fifty point pace guy that's probably a little bit more reasonable, and
Zucker certainly should be like a round to fifty ish point guy, depending on
where they all fit in the lineup. I think is we still I mean,
we've seen a little bit. We'll have to wait and see how this
all balances out there, but I think the bottom line is that they are
a good team. Like they surprisingly have been way better than we all expected,
and that's fun to see. So Zucker was playing with Bavilier and Colton
Sissons, so certainly not the biggest vote of confidence in terms of deployment.
But yeah, I'm pretty interested in what Nashville is doing, and I'm excited.
It's like they everyone thought they were gonna just roll up into a tank
mode and they instead are you know, ahead of Vegas in the wildcard standing.
So that's pretty exciting. Yep. Now we'll go on. This is
weird to me, Victor. The Coyotes literally they paid the Tampa Bay Lightning
to take Matt Dumba off their hands technically because they flipped picks for the future.
I have to think that the pick that they actually traded away will be
a better pick. But they got rid of three point nine million dollars and
were they out of cash? The Coyotes didn't have anything, But I Matt
Delpy used to be real good, Victor. I think that this is a
pretty good acquisition for Tampa. I guess they found some salary room for him,
but it seems like he goes from very little competition on the blue line
at Arizona to probably a fairly depth role in Tampa. Why was this so
cheap? Victor? My response to that was just posting his rampam chart in
our show notes, which shows that he's getting absolutely caved in defensively. He
explained, for the Coyotes, what do you expect? Yeah, I think
that's part of the calculus here is Yeah, but the Coyotes were good early
in the season, or at least they were competitive. It looked like they
might even sneak into the playoffs, and then they've been terrible for a month.
I guess a little bit better recently. But even when the Coyotes were
good, Dumbo was getting kyed in, so he wasn't helping. He was
definitely struggling. And yeah, he's not that old, he's twenty nine,
but maybe you know, there's a lot of miles on he's you know,
over six hundred and fifty NHL games, and he's he plays that rugged style.
So I think that's part of what Tampa wanted, And maybe part of
the calculus is that there's still some gas left in the tank there for Dumba,
and he could be a good, hard nosed player to play against.
His periffs are pretty decent in terms of the blocks and shots. The blocks
have been a little bit down this year, but the hits are still there.
The issue is just the time on ice. Is he going to play
as much or less? He was averaging close to twenty twenty one minutes and
that's about what he played in Tampa. I don't know if that's going to
continue, but if he does, then that's pretty good for his his continued
peripheral contribution. But I would be skeptical that is going to continue just because
they have I have a lot of other options, So yeah, I'm not
super excited about that, although, like with other teams that we've talked about,
going from a team that doesn't score as much of a team that scores
a lot, he could certainly look into a few more points there, obviously.
Next we'll go to the same Sharks who tried to answer the immortal question
how does one conduct a fire sale when there's nothing flammable left? And they
did it. They acquired a couple more assets with what they had, they
moved VTech Vancheck. They moved Kappol Kopkin in, who was one of the
goalies who was constantly talked about in this phrase for VTech Vancheck that they may
reassemble the new Jersey Devil's goalie tandem of last year. Now they've got Vanacheck
and Blackwood associated with the Sharks, so good for them, good tanky move.
They got a seventh round pick out of it. Otherwise, I'm not
quite sure what the deal is here flipping to lower down assets, but I'm
sure the Devils were happy about it. And then also the big, one
of the biggest moves of the deadline toomash Hurtle out of nowhere gets moved to
the Vegas Golden Knights. A little bit of money routined once again, and
I thought the Sharks were like Vegas's number one enemy. I guess the fact
that the Sharks have slipped out of it the last few years has taken the
sting of that away. But they used to hate each other as far as
I knew. But Hurdle moves from the one of the main, if not
the main, offensive role on a bottom dwelling team to probably a depth role
on one of the best teams in the NHL or well, they're not right
now, but presumably with the roster they have, they're going to be from
here on out. Yeah, I don't know. My brain is breaking.
Is Hurdle going to be better or worse production wise? Victor? Yeah,
I think that's a good question. It's difficult to answer. He was getting
just a ton of ice in San Jose because who else were they going to
play. He's, you know, one of the few good players, competitive,
strong players on the team day night in and night out, and they
needed him to be everything and he was. He was still amazingly, you
know, on a fifty five fifty eight point pace with the Sharks on with
literally no help at times. Gature has been out most of the season.
It sounds like Coature might never play again. Actually, he sounds like he's
really struggling. So they've had some decent rookies. Hterlens look decent. They've
had some contributions from Eckln and lately Bordelow. But it's been Hurdle pretty much
all season with very little help, and he's going to a team that is
completely stacked. But I think it's hard to imagine a better one two punch
down the middle than way you have with Eichel and Hurdle. There are I'm
not saying there aren't, but he's that's certainly like top five maybe one two
punch around the league. He's a really great two way player. Hurdle is
probably one of the better second line centers in terms of all around impact that
you could imagine on a team. So I think it's excellent for the team.
Is it going to help him, probably, and they're going to score
a lot more. He's probably going to be on the top power play and
get some decent wingers at least when Mark Stone is back, So I think
overall this probably will help him. His high was that seventy nine point pace
season of eighteen nineteen. I don't think he's that player even in Vegas,
but I think he can could certainly be closer to a seventy seventy five point
player. You know, with the power play points. The power play points
have really jumped all around for Tomash Hurtle in his career. He had up
to twenty two last season, but even in that strong eighteen nineteen season,
he only had fifteen, So it's not like he's feasted on the power play.
He's basically done most of this at five to five, and I think
that he's probably gonna get maybe even a decent more amount of those in Vegas.
So I think this is amazing for Vegas long term. He's long been
one of my favorite players. I think he's really underrated, and all the
little things he does around the ice, he just makes the life miserable for
the opponents. Is he's hard to get around, he's hard to deal with.
He's big. People don't realize how big. He's six three two fifteen.
He's a big dude, and he's hard to move around. And he
plays like that sometimes not all the time, like he isn't always so physically
imposing. But man, I think this was shrewd and I think that there
was some discussion with Mike Greer about why, I think the fan base is
melting down, why did you do this? But you have to remember this
was Doug Wilson's final move that he did at with Joe will as the interim
GM at the time. He basically wanted to keep Hurdle around and signed him
to this long contract, which was I said at the time, a really
terrible move. You have this guy who's passed his prime, he's had knee
injuries, and you're signing him to this massive contract. The Sharks really needed
to go from under this. Frankly, I think as the team moves forward,
they really needed to and it sounded like Hurdle really wanted to go to
a contender, even though he likes being in San Jose. So I think
this was partly let's move some cap off our books, let's get some assets,
and let's give Tomash something he deserves, which is to play for a
contender, even though I know it seems weird going to a competitor like Vegas.
I don't know if people remember, but in that series comeback, when
the Sharks were good against Vegas, when they came back from three games to
one down and won the series and knocked Vegas out of the playoffs, he's
the one who scored the overtime, shorthanded game winning goal that put the dagger
in the Vegas Golden Knights. I'm pretty sure the Knights remember that. I'm
pretty sure they remember what kind of There couldn't be a more clutch moment that
you could imagine, being shorthanded over time with the series on the line,
and he delivered one of the most amazing goals you could think of. So
anyways, Tomer Turtle is great. I think he will improve his stock in
Vegas. I think it will help Vegas immensely once he's back, which should
be soon. He had a knee surgery, but it was a very minor
procedure. I think he's going to be back very soon, and I wouldn't
worry necessarily short term, but long term you do have to worry about those
knees. Those knees have been a problem for him. How long will his
career continue. He's thirty right now. I think he'll still be good for
at least a couple more seasons, but he might break down after that because,
as I mentioned before, Big Dude, in terms of the goalies,
this is I think very curious, Jesse. But you have to also keep
in mind that the Sharks took on the reclamation project that is Mackenzie Blackwood,
and everyone thought that was weird. And Blackwood has early success and then he
struggled so much more recently in Jersey, and he has been excellent for the
Sharks. So I think there's maybe some thought here, at least this is
part of what I've heard and what I've seen is that they I think there's
a thought that they can rehab Banichick as well, that maybe there's something more
there. Because nobody wanted Mackenzie Blackwood. Nobody he was going to be out
of the league, and now they're talking about him as back in the conversation
of being potential potentially on Team Canada when they play best on best, and
he was in that discussion before he was bad. So there's been wild swings
in Mackenzie Blackwood's game, and I think that there have been there's this thought
that whatever the Sharks skultending coaches have done have helped rehab him. Maybe it's
just the opportunity and the decreased pressure. I don't know, and maybe there's
a thought they can do that with Banichick and Kappanan Kapril Kakinen was an expiring
asset, and so I think they get Banichick, who makes a little bit
more, but they have a little bit more control over him, and maybe
maybe they'll turn him around, or maybe they'll flip him. I don't know.
They get a pick, but I don't think it's too weird, and
I don't think it's just that they want to be bad, so they're getting
the worst goalie or one of the worst goalies around, because these two were
terrible for Jersey over the last couple of years. But I don't think that's
necessarily the reason. I think they now look at Minckenzie Blackwood as part of
their future in that and that would have seemed wild a couple of years ago.
So I think there's a little bit more there and they see some potential.
I don't know that I see it. I've never really seen it in
Vanicheck. I've always thought of him as more of a tandem guy. But
I think that's what they're thinking, Okay, and worst case scenario, not
worst case scenario, but intermediate case scenario. Perhaps if he is really good
and you're still in a longer rebuild, you can flip him and maybe get
something out of him. Next year, we saw the goalies the goalie market
really didn't turn out to be much in the trade deadline, but it might
be better in the offseason when teams are going to have a whole year to
build around those goalies. Last trade for the Day, Columbus Blue Jackets moved
Jack Roslovich to the New York Rangers, I'm all in on this one.
Victor. Jack Rosslovich playing top line with Mika Zabenijad and Chris Kreider, that's
where they're going to put him. I love it. Jack Rosselovich goes from
basically no value in fantasy to I think he could be a fifty five point
player if things all break right for the rest of the season. They wanted
him for a reason. I think he his contract I think even goes past
this year. So what do you think, Victor, You're going to get
on Jack Rostlovich trained with me. No, I'm not. I've never really
been a fan of him, and the thing is that he has these spurts,
and he has spurts of relevance where he looks really good, but it's
just it's never consistent. So, yes, he played with Zavenijad and Krider
in the most recent game, and that's awesome. And if he does that,
of course you're interested and you want every piece of that. But he
doesn't. He doesn't often stay in that top deployment, and he's been up
and down in terms of his production the last couple of years. He's been
got this forty five point pace. He did have a fifty eight point pace.
Generally, his perifs have been a little bit lower, though he hasn't
really hit a whole lot or block and he shoots usually under twice a game,
although this season he has been shooting a little bit more so maybe there's
something there. I think that's the key. If he can stick in the
top six in New York, then sure, yes, I'm of course going
to be interested. I just have little faith that's going to continue beyond sporadic
deployment decisions or whatever. That's my concern with that. Of course, it's
not like they have a ton of better options. Trocheck is, Zavantajet and
Paner and are locked with Krider are locked into that top six. Lafrenier seems
like he's put himself in that consideration as well as being there, but they
don't really have another He has to be in the top six, so they
might move Coco back up there. Maybe they'll put Weinberger at the wing or
Cooley seems like he's improving. There's also a VC in Goodrow, but I
think there's a chance he stays there, and if he does, I think
it's a good speculative bet to make, like in terms of a move that
I would be interested in. Sure, I'll be interested in trying that out,
but I wouldn't want to spend if he's a free agent or was a
free agent. Sure, but I'm not going to spend any assets to get
Rossivig because I think it's just as likely that he spends more time in the
bottom six than a top six rest of season. And that's just that's not
a bet that I want to spend a lot of capital on. But what
do you think he's going to stay there? What you're saying is totally fair,
but as a speculation pick. I like him at this point because if
he is able to stick there, and he traded for him for a reason,
he could be really valuable and the Rangers stocking up for a run.
So I still like him. I traded for Remember I traded. I got
him as a throwing piece a couple of years ago into trade in our common
league, and I've been holding clutching onto him ever since, even though he's
been giving me a little reason for hope. But come on, Jack,
get her done in there in the big Apple Victor. That is our trade
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